Improvement in hand seed-planters



J. H. JONES.

Hand Seeder.

N0. 15,610. Patented Aug. 26, 1856.

PATENT OFFICE.

J. EIERVA JONES, OF ROOKTON, -ILLINIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND SEED-PLANTERS.

Speeifieanion forming pmt of Letters Patent N0. 15,610, (lated August 26,1856.

T0 all whom z't mag; concem:

Be in known that I, J. HERVA JONES, of the town of Roekton, in the county 0f Winnebago and Stute of lllinois, have invented a new and useful Machine for Planting Seeds; and I d0 hereby declare that the following is a clear, full, and exact deseription 0f the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part 0f this specifieation, in which Figure 1 is a, perspective view, showing the planters with their reservoirs A A, the hinge B, the levers a a, the eap-pieces b b, t0 which the reservoirs are attached, and the sharp plauting-points c c. Fig. 2 is e longitudinal elevation, the same letters referring t0 like exterior parts as in Fig. l, showing the planter with its reservoir A, the hinge B, the levers a a, the cap-pieces b b, 130 which the reservoirs are attached, the planting-point c, and the seedin g apparatus d.

Theadvantages 0f this maehine are certainty 0f eovering the seed by the expansion 0f the points and the inelination at which they enter the ground when planting, ease 0f adjustability 0f width by raisidg and lowering thejoints 0t' the levers, und portability by being closed entirely together like a pairof eompasses when desired.

The nature ol' n1y iuventiou eousists in so hinging two single hand-planters together by a hinge 01 joint at their tops without the intewention of a, bar 01 connecting-rods as that; when they are struck down they will expand, and their poiuts enter the ground at an inclination more or lass, es the case may be, and also combining with the hinge 01 joint; two levers, which serve the triple purposeto wit, adj usting the widlh 01 the planting-points by their joints being raised 0r lowered, retaining the planters in their inclined position while being carried from platze t0 place, and operating the apparatus for dropping the seed.

'Il1e full operation is as follows 'Ibe reservoirs A A, being filled with seed, take hold of the levers a a and lift the maehine from the ground, when it will assume it-s contraeted position, the points 0 c being nearest together. The seedingeavity will n0w ha.ve deposited a sufficients quantity of seed for a hill in the diseharging-recess near c. The maehine is then struek d'own, and the hinge B allows the points toms of the reservoirs press the surfa.ce. This allows the shoulders of the levers to withdraw from their recesses at the top of the slots, und as the pressure 0f the hands continues the cappieees b b become fulcrums, the lower sections of the points are withdrawn from the ground,

made. 'Ihe machine heilig now lifted, the lower seetions 0f the points are returned upon the seed, the whole 1I1achine contracts, the points are withdrawn froxn the eartlh als the same inclination ab which they entered, lezwing the whole mass of earth above to fall upon the seed, and the samne position is assumed as at fi1st.

Such being the natura 0f my imp1r0vement in seed-planters, I do n0t clain1 Lhatpart whieh enters the ground, 1101 d0 I claim any method 0f selecting and dropping the seed; bat

What l clairn as my invention, and desire 130 secure by Letters Patent, is

The use 0f a hinge orjoint, B, or its equivalent, for conneeting two single hand-planters ab their tops, for the purpose 0f allowing them, like a pair ot' compasses, t0 expand. and coutract in Lheir operation, substantially in the manner and for the purpose sei: forth.

In testimony Whereofl hereunto sei; zny band before two subscribing witnesses.

J. HERVA JONES. [L. s.]

Witnesses: v

W. R. WILD, J. G. HOLDEN.

to expand and enter the ground anti] the bot-- and the seed falls into the receptacle thus 

